A Public House, ready Furnished; known by the Sign of the
"Thistle and Crown," nearly opposite the "King's Head Inn,"
Rochester.

The House is very complete, and well situated.

For further Particulars, enquire of Mrs. Rebecca Elliott, Brewer, in
Rochester, or of Mr. Lachlen Maclean, at the "Globe," in Chatham.

None but Principals will be treated with.

Thanet Advertiser 06 December 1890.

ROCHESTER. BREAKING A MAN'S NOSE.

At the Guildhall, Rochester, on Tuesday, Ernest Phyall and William
Morrison, labourers, belonging to Snodland, were summoned for assaulting
William Charles Jolly, landlord of the "Crown and Thistle Inn,"
Rochester, on the night of the 1st November.

It appeared that defendants
had been to Chatham, and lost their return train. They went to Jolly's
house at midnight for a bed, and a quarrel took place over the price.
According to Jolly he was undoing the door to let the defendants out,
and they both attacked him violently till the arrival of the police. His
nose was broken by a blow, and it was suggested that the breaking of a
blood vessel in his head eight days afterwards, when he all but bled to
death, was a result of this Nasal fracture.

Defendants, on the other
hand said complainant asked an exorbitant price for a bed, and they were
leaving the house when he attacked them, a friend assisting him by
holding one of the defendants.

Supt. Broadbridge said the parties came
to the police-station immediately after the occurrence, and all three
were the worse for liquor. The magistrates convicted defendants, and
ordered them each to pay £2, including costs, in a fortnight, or be
imprisoned for a month each.